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Re: Upstreaming the glibc Hurd port
- From: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, bug-hurd at gnu dot org
- Cc: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:45:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: Upstreaming the glibc Hurd port
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Florian Weimer, on jeu. 18 janv. 2018 13:39:51 +0100, wrote:
> Is it just a matter of someone doing the work of upstreaming all the
> existing patches?
It's mostly that, yes.
> If we cannot resolve this is in the coming months, I think we should
> seriously consider a removal of the Hurd port, I'm afraid.
Ok, then I can take the time to do it, but as usual it'll be at the
expense of other Hurd activities, e.g. the obvious Meltdown/Spectre
issues, etc.
Unless bug-hurd people actually help me with it.
Samuel